From: "Ludwig, Mark" <ludwig.mark@siemens.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: CVE-2017-14482 - Red Hat Customer Portal
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:08:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BC5672F8AD4C054BAF167C9801500D1A016B289712@USSLMMBX004.net.plm.eds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vl8th2o4fe.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
> From Glenn Morris, Monday, September 25, 2017 4:27 PM
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > A file whose source you don't trust or are unfamiliar with should
> > initially be examined with find-file-literally, if your security is
> > indeed important for you. That emulates what most other text editors
> > do when you open a file.
>
> Wow. I find this an extraordinary statement. For example, it means
> that "emacs [-Q] somefile" could eg happily delete your home directory.
> Please reconsider.
It is an unhappy reality, but this is no different from other sophisticated
file formats. Consider the wisdom of "firefox foo.html" where
you do not know what is in foo.html. You may /think/ you just want to
"view" what is in foo.html....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-25 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-21 21:51 CVE-2017-14482 - Red Hat Customer Portal ken
2017-09-21 22:03 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-09-21 23:07 ` ken
2017-09-22 7:37 ` Alberto Luaces
2017-09-22 7:48 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-22 20:12 ` Mario Castelán Castro
2017-09-22 22:14 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-24 2:08 ` Mario Castelán Castro
[not found] ` <mailman.1063.1506218941.14750.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-09-24 6:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-24 13:38 ` Mario Castelán Castro
2017-09-24 14:42 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-09-24 14:54 ` tomas
2017-09-26 18:57 ` Narendra Joshi
2017-09-24 23:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-25 21:23 ` Mario Castelán Castro
2017-09-25 21:49 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-26 1:43 ` Mario Castelán Castro
2017-09-26 2:17 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-25 21:11 ` Mario Castelán Castro
2017-09-25 23:58 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-09-26 14:46 ` Mario Castelán Castro
2017-09-26 23:31 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-09-29 20:21 ` Mario Castelán Castro
2017-09-29 12:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-29 14:59 ` dekkzz78
2017-09-29 16:51 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-09-29 17:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-29 18:27 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-09-29 19:45 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-29 20:06 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-09-29 23:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-29 18:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-24 23:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-23 10:05 ` Charles A. Roelli
2017-09-23 12:53 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-09-23 13:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-23 17:18 ` Glenn Morris
2017-09-23 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-23 20:50 ` Yuri Khan
2017-09-24 2:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-24 7:13 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-09-24 18:29 ` Robert Thorpe
2017-09-29 8:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-29 20:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-29 23:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-10-03 0:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-10-03 1:04 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-29 7:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1068.1506237251.14750.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-09-24 7:48 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-25 21:26 ` Glenn Morris
2017-09-25 22:02 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-25 22:08 ` Ludwig, Mark [this message]
2017-09-26 5:50 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-26 13:40 ` Ludwig, Mark
2017-09-26 17:46 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-09-26 19:00 ` Ludwig, Mark
2017-09-29 13:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-29 9:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-26 18:44 ` Narendra Joshi
2017-09-26 18:51 ` Philipp Stephani
[not found] ` <mailman.988.1506161159.14750.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-09-24 6:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-22 16:40 ` ken
2017-09-22 19:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-23 20:27 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.1053.1506198486.14750.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-09-24 6:38 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-24 17:17 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2017-09-24 22:38 ` Emanuel Berg
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2017-09-27 10:51 Richard Melville
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